Alexander Cavalie Mercer

Alexander Cavalie Mercer (28 March 1783-9 November 1868) was a general of Great Britain who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and Pork and Beans War.

Biography
Alexander Cavalie Mercer was born in Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire, northern England, in 1783. He enlisted in the British Army's artillery and became a famed general for leading the G Troop Royal Horse Artillery at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, repelling repeated charges by French heavy cavalry. He wrote Journal, a description of Waterloo and the Belgian people and country.

From 1837 to 1842 Mercer served in North America and commanded the British artillery during the 1837 Pork and Beans War with the United States, also painting watercolors while in British Canada. He died in 1868.